Darby Yule surveyed Gen Z to late millennials about music's next five years.
They want "hybrid human-AI genres with soulful textures and algorithmic precision." They want vulnerability. They want bruises in their euphoria.
Then they built the sounds. #LofiTherapyPop for midnight's small mercy. #EditCore for velocity worship.
While Silicon Valley builds another recommendation engine, Scott Larson asks the real question: Why did 1000+ people answer a music survey in the age of Spotify surveillance?
Immortality? Recognition? Fifty bucks?
His answer involves metal shows, Tom Lehrer, and the beautiful absurdity of trying to quantify taste.
Required viewing for anyone who thinks AI understands culture.
BC could be running AI on clean hydro while everyone else burns coal. We have the water. The power. The talent. Just need the infrastructure investment to match.Ottawa's listening for 3 more weeks. Worth telling them what we actually need?
The ED + AI initiative inside BC + AI brings people together to slow down, compare notes, and design with care: consent‑first, equity‑minded, place‑rooted.
We’re here to weave practical tools with ethical guardrails so classrooms, after‑school programs, and community labs thrive.
AI is already in the hallways, homework tabs, and makerspaces. Let’s gather to trade what works, laugh at what didn’t, and shape a BC‑rooted path forward.
Surrey’s AI scene is on the rise.
From artists to engineers, students to policy nerds—we’re weaving a mycelial network across BC.
Be part of it Oct 14.
Royal Canadian Legion #8. 6-9 PM.
Because AI isn’t just tech... it’s community.
🎟 https://luma.com/surrey-AI
Theme: SOFT. Speaker: Cheyenne Rouleau. Music: Ryan McMahon.
Kevin Friel will share a few words, and I’ll be in the lobby with Gabriel Zaro & Yin Lau... come say hi, swap notes, and tell us what you’re building. Community vibes by Mark Busse.
→ Creative Mornings tix: https://creativemornings.com/talks/cheyenne-rouleau
→ BC + AI Membership (students/individuals/teams): https://bc-ai.ca/membership/
Live from Vancouver: our SIGGRAPH mini report.
• Generative VFX workflow (Stable Diffusion → Nuke)
• “Creative” no-code engine: procedural worlds, physics, AI text-to-scene, one-click publishing
If you’re exploring AI as a production co-pilot in VFX or gamedev, this one’s for you.
Watch + join the discussion on tools, ethics, and real pipelines.
Vancouver AI Hackathon winners turn BC + AI Ecosystem survey data into stories: one builds semantic maps, another an AGI-style data interface, and one drops a full generative album.
Hackathon winners video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywz0Tz4dkFE
AI projects don’t fail for model reasons they fail for people reasons.
Peter Bitner on literacy, culture, and skills that still pay rent.
#VancouverAI #FutureOfWork #AILiteracy
Watch the meetup talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUqTduAuk7Q
